Completed yesterday !! bad surprise

gemma.zhang

It sounds horriable.. Hope it's sorted out for you.
I am pretty sure we'll spot out more defeats once we started our work..

Just feel geniusly upset, and disappointed at the fact that, we pay a lot to buy this house, and now, have to pay a few k to fix those things we didn't see/expect at the viewings coz vendor's been hidding stuff !!!, which we didn't budget at all.

:mad:

mlz1413 wrote: »

just had something similar I viewed a flat in May, sale should have gone through in Aug but due to problems with lease it finally went through in Oct!

When i finally got the keys I went in to clean and remove carpets (old lady's flat who had passed away) a leak from upstairs flat had brought ceiling down in bathroom!! Then putting up new plasterboard meant the bathroom cabinet had to be remove - no tiles behind it!! Now the cabinet can't just be replaced,a new one has got to be the same size or bigger.

Also the hot water had stopped working and when it was checked someone had bodged it a long time ago so it had to be professional done this time.

Then the new kitchen was fitted to find no water would drain away, turned out to be fat that had been poured down sink and clogged up pipes.

These are things you can just never know about until you move in!

iainkane

Its unfortunate and I do feel sorry for you, but if there are things wrong some of them can be claimed within a week. Speak to your lawyer and see what they say, we moved in (said to the people they could leave stuff) as they offered us kitchen appliances and a couch as we were 1st time buyers. The boiler wasn't right and we ended up getting about £300 towards the cost of the new boiler.

As for the rest of the rubbish they left, about 20 tables, telephones etc, we had a car boot sale and made over £100. Silver lining and all that.


Also they left us 15 carpets in 4 rooms, and scrambled eggs in the micro as well...

mlz1413

If your slightly handed it could only cost you a small amount. Can you repaste the bits of wallpaper that are falling down? Or can you paint over it?
The flat i've just bought had wallpaper with sponging on it which was horrid AND badly done, I managed to peel off just the paper and leave the backing paper on wall, this meant I could slap a coat of magnolia on it which has made everything look better. This would buy you time to re-dec when your ready.

Also with the carpets you can hire carpet cleaners for about £50 for a weekend - buy the cleaning shampoo etc from hire place, it may seem expensive but it's industrial and well worth it, if your organised you can clean whole house top to bottom twice between fri night and mon morning.

Good luck

custardy

sounds a nightmare.i had a friend who bought a house to discover when she moved in the old couple had put the laminate floor in around all the furniture!!!!
big square/rectangle gaps all around the place.funny now but at the time a nightmare

mlz1413

custardy wrote: »

sounds a nightmare.i had a friend who bought a house to discover when she moved in the old couple had put the laminate floor in around all the furniture!!!!
big square/rectangle gaps all around the place.funny now but at the time a nightmare

:rotfl: def funny now!!

That makes the missing tiles in bathroom seem like a blessing!!

granville_2

Does anyone have a full structural survey done before buying a property these days?

That would pick up things like plastering needing to be done etc. Sure they're expensive, but it is a valuable tool to negotiate on price prior to completing.

ymmv.

budget_counsellor_shaz

granville wrote: »

Does anyone have a full structural survey done before buying a property these days?

That would pick up things like plastering needing to be done etc. Sure they're expensive, but it is a valuable tool to negotiate on price prior to completing.

ymmv.

I had a homebuyers survey done once it cost me a fortune and I don't think I'd do it again. It nearly put mke off buying the house I was after (it made out that the whole house would collapse:eek: (well practically:D )......I went ahead and bought it and it was fine.

I think a mortgage survey is sufficient. If I need more advice I'd ask my dad hes done a lot of building work and knows what to look for..... as any experienced builders would.

If I had had a full structual survey it wouldn't have picked up the fact that the taps weren't plumbed in or that some of the tiles were stuck on with wax:rotfl:

Just my opinion of course

tomstickland

A survey isn't much use in my opinion, based on my experience of them. TBH, I'd just get on with sorting the house out.

haylibo

My friend bought a house last year where the previous owners left a skip full of cr*p. My friend told her solicitor and EA and hired said skip and then charged for skip+time and bother of filling the thing. I think it was around £250 - £300 and she did get it.

KiKi

I always get full structurals done, but then I live in a town of old Victorian houses which aren't all that well built. I would never, ever, take the chance of there being a structural problem in my house - too expensive. I'd rather spend £500 and be safe...if I go ahead anyway, then £500 is nothing compared to the mortgage you'd take out afterwards!

As long as you know that you have to read structural surveys with the understanding that there will *always* be some problem found, you can make a call on whether or not you'd actually need to take action.

I feel very sorry for you. I've learnt through experience now that when I view a property you really do have to look for those things quite closely, including behind furniture, or ask for a second viewing. It's not the sort of thing you get told. You also have to bear in mind that when furniture is removed from a house, it will *always* look more shabby, that's just the way it is, unfortunately!!

But leaving rubbish behind, or walls that actually need replastering - that's just not on at all, especially when it ends up costing you. You don't need the stress of it in a new home. I hope you manage to get something sorted with them.